Why did you write all of Django from scratch, instead of using other Python libraries?
When Django was originally written a couple of years ago, Adrian and Simon spent quite a bit of time exploring the various Python Web frameworks available. In our opinion, none of them were completely up to snuff. We’re picky. You might even call us perfectionists. (With deadlines.) Over time, we stumbled across open-source libraries that did things we’d already implemented. It was reassuring to see other people solving similar problems in similar ways, but it was too late to integrate outside code: We’d already written, tested and implemented our own framework bits in several production settings — and our own code met our needs delightfully. In most cases, however, we found that existing frameworks/tools inevitably had some sort of fundamental, fatal flaw that made us squeamish. No tool fit our philosophies 100%. Like we said: We’re picky. We’ve documented our philosophies on the design philosophies page.
